Essay: Broken Heartland, discusses issues in rural society such as the farm crisis

Broken Heartland gives an in depth picture of what rural society is like. Osha Gray Davidson goes on to vividly illustrate some of the countries farming problems and crisis. Davidson gives details the results of the farm crisis, the aging population, closed businesses, unemployment, and suicide to name a few. Davidson establishes a relationship between the farm crisis and the evolution of America's Heartland as a rural ghetto. The author characterizes parts of Iowa as …

…to plague the Heartland of America if this nation does recognize that a change needs to be made. The final plea is meant to encourage citizens to recognize this problem and implement some sort of plan to help alleviate the effects of the farm crisis. "We saved Chrysler because we couldn't afford to let it fail." (p. 163) Bibliography Davidson, Osha Gray. Broken Heartland: The Rise Of America's Rural Ghetto. Iowa City: University Of Iowa Press, 1996.